Process of curing meats.



'a special pickle or brine, placing the each one hundred pounds I after the whole is thoroughly UNITED s'rAr 1 PATENT orrion.

HARRY n. BAUMGARDNER, or FREDERICK, MARYLAND. rnoenss or CURING MEATS.

I W 1,217,134. Specification of Letters Patent. t t 2 7, 19 No Drawing. Application filed July 11, 1913. Serial 110.778, 179. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY D. BAUMGARD- NER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Frederick, Frederick county, an State of Maryland, have invented and discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Curing Meats, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention consists in an improved process of curing meats, particularly cuts of pork, such as hams, shoulders, and bacon.

Said process consists in first preparing meat for a specified period of time from the brine and in said brine and then removing smoking the same.

Said brine is prepared as follows: For of meat I take of coarse salt, two pounds of and two ounces of saltpeter, four gallons seven pounds brown sugar, and mix these ingredients with of soft water. The whole is boiled an stirred during the boiling, until all is thoroughly mixed and the solids dissolved. During the boiling the waste products rising to the surface are skimmed off and mixedand in solution, it is allowed to cool. When cold the brine or liquor thus formed is poure over the meat (approximately 100 pounds) and the meat allowed to stand therein for a period of five weeks. It is then remove and cured by smoking in the well known manner.

While I have found in practice that these Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the 1 vention, what I claim as new proportions and the period of time stated for pickling to produce the most desirable results, it is obvious that slight variations may be made without material differences in results.

Having thus fully described my said inand desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The process of curing meat which consists in preparing a brine by mixing, proximately every 100 pounds 0 7 about seven pounds of coarse salt, two

ounds of brown sugar, and two ounces 0 saltpeter, adding to these ingredients four gallons of soft then boiling the mixture and stirring until all the solids are dissolved, the waste products rising to the surface and after the whole is thoroughly mixed and in allowing it to cool; pouring the thus formed over the meat (apone hundred pounds) and allowing the meat to remain in the brine for a period of about five weeks, then removing and curing the meat by smoking, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Frederick city, Maryland, this 2nd day of July, A. D. nineteen hundred and thirteen.

HARRY D. BAUMGABDNER. [11. 8-]

Witnesses:

WM. D. ZIMMERMAN, A. Ln ROY MCOARDELL.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

